Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 Fifty or sixty parents were present , and were talking in nervous or gushing little groups which centred on one or other of the teachers .
2 The religious political factor was merely one of several major recurring problems during Barbarossa 's reign , all of which interacted with one another .
3 As with many clubs , there were disagreements , one of which led to one of the members being dismissed .
4 Although the CNAA acquired this new set of privileged partners , it also retained those institutions which shared to one extent or another in the provision of higher education .
5 He let the opening float over him : undulating strings , like someone stirring from sleep , which rose to one crashing climax , followed by another .
6 Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage .
7 I do n't know , perhaps really like to relocate people , you know , that might be something which came as one of things they did was n't it , in the fifties and sixties .
8 He did an ever expanding trade in cars and trucks under his big red neon sign , which proclaimed on one side FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — YOU CAN TRUST MAXIE , and on the other FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — I GREW WITH ALBERTA .
9 If a club is relegated — which happened to one of them in 1990 — the shares will fall steeply in value .
10 This school , which began with one pupil , was known as the Braidwood Academy and was located in Edinburgh .
11 A small white dog which belonged to one of the gardeners appeared , and seemed very interested in me .
12 She dialled the number her husband had given her , which belonged to one of his old school friends , a television producer .
13 A couple strolled past on clicking heels which echoed from one side of the road to the other .
14 This depended not only on variations in rate poundage but also on rateable values , which varied from one part of the country to another .
15 And the other thing of course was that one movement , which took about one second , right and you would n't have a loom , one movement of this machine where the needles go up , take the yarn , knitted a hundred stitches , two hundred stitches , what whatever number of stitches were on that particular piece of fabric , the width .
16 In England , by the later seventeenth century , there had emerged a fairly clear-cut distinction where foreign affairs were concerned between a northern and a southern department , with each of the two secretaries handling relations with the foreign states which fell into one of these geographical divisions .
17 There was usually a passage which went from one wing to the other and crossed the open hall at first floor level .
18 In the confusion which reigned before one of the Englishmen in the citadel recognized the royal banner , one of Henry 's household was wounded and the King himself had a narrow escape .
19 Some serious incidents occurred during this period on the Broadwater Farm Estate , such as an attack on police by youths which resulted in one officer sustaining a bad head wound , and there was also a series of attacks on an Asian-owned supermarket .
20 However , our experience was that the very week that our new church planting team began to meet , with such rosy hopes , a violent row between two families occurred which resulted in one couple leaving the team and the church .
21 Again , it was an internal appointment which resulted in one applicant : Jenny Ball .
22 Eventually , a distinction came Aarau 's way which resulted in one of its most striking thoroughfares .
23 An example of this is the Local Development Unit 's short courses programme which organised over one hundred courses last year , through local centres and local trainers .
24 MENSA , the organisation for people with very high IQs , started an investment club which bought from one sharedealer an American OTC stock Biotech Capital Corporation .
25 The association was founded in 1965 ( on 21 June , from which it takes its name ) , when some 80% of all school teachers staged a demonstration to protest against a new " Law of Retirements " , which increased by one third the period of service necessary to qualify for a pension .
26 There 's one from Mrs O. Latham of Dartford , Kent , who reminded me of her favourite letter which appeared in one of my past columns .
27 Jammed into one of the blocks was a bright-green electrical wire , the other end of which ran to one of the jaws of the wooden clothes-peg Quinn held aloft in his left hand .
28 Alex picked a bloom from the large bouquet of mixed carnations which stood to one side of her desk and held it to her nose , savouring the cinnamon scent .
29 Artai walked from the balcony across the expanse of the chamber to a marble table which stood against one wall .
30 He caught the tangy smell of soap , though he also sniffed the stench of corruption and the dank smell of a charnel house which stood in one corner of the grounds .
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